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ADAM HEINZ, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO .IIIMSELE JOHN L. FISHER, AND GEORGE l-MUNSOHAUER, OF SAME PLAGE.

Letters Patent No. 100,034, dated .February 22, 1870.

IMPRQVED REFRIGBRATOR.

The Schedule refexrqd to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

I, ADAM HEINZ, of Buffalo, Erie county, New York, (assignor to myself, J oHN L. FISHER, and GEORGE J MUNscHAUEn, of the same place,) have invented certain Improvements in Refrigerators, of which the following is a specitication.

The nature of this invention relates to the con struction and arrangement of the ice-box of a refrigerator, having a hoppercd bottom, wit-h a central opening or slot, and a large and a small trough underneath said slot, the small trough or glitter being located below the large one, for t-he purpose of catching the moisture accumulating upon the under side ofthe larger one, and both gutters being connected with the In combination with the above, a removable plat-form drawer is supported upon rollers on lthe top of the hoppered bottom, for the reception of the ice.

Figure I is a vertical section of my improvements, the drawer being shown in its proper position within the ice-box.

Figure II is a transverse vertical section of the same, the drawer being partly drawn out.

Figure III is a perspective view of the drawer, when used separately.

Letters of like name and kind refer to like parts in each of the iigures.

A A represent the walls of a refrigerator of any common and well-known construction,

B B are two inclined plates, which form the bottom of the ice-box. lhey are inclined toward eachother, leaving a central slot between them, which extends from the front to the rear of the refrigerator.

Below this slot a trough or gutter, O, is so arrangct as to catch the waste water as it'passes down the hoppered bottom plates ofthe ice-box, and carry it to the waste-pipe g, in the rear of the refrigerator. This gutter is V-shapcd in its cross-section, and is inclined toward the rear of the ice-box, terminating above the mouth of the waste-pipe.

A very narrow gutter, D, is secured in a position directly below the center of the gutter O, extending its entire length, and connecting with the mouth of the waste-pipe.

By means of the peculiar construction and arrangement of these gutters O and D, as well as the hopper bottom IS, a very desirable object is attained. In refrigerators a great quantity ot' moisture accumulates upon the surface of the metallic lining, ,which moisture collects in drops, and thus descends to the bottom ofthe refrigerator. The metallic parts composing the bottom of the ice-box re also subject, to this accumulation of moisture, especially upon `the underside there-of, and hence the contents ofthe refrigerator located below the icc-box are exposed' to, and often spoiled or injured by the frequent dri ppings from said parts. 'Ie obviatc this evil'I construct-the bottom of the ice-box as above described, collecting the moisture accumulating upon theiinder side of Athe hopper-ed bottom B B in the gutter C, and that accumulating upon the under side of `the gutter O, in the narrow gutter D, carrying the` whole of it oi', together with the waste water, through the waste-pipe g.

E represents a removable platform drawer, which is provided with handles f f at each end, and is supported upon rollers h h in such manner that it may be either partially or wholly withdrawn from its posit-ionA upon the bottom of' the ice-box. Its shape, as shownA in cross-section in Fig. I, may either be similar tothe bottom B B, or it may be made in any other desired shape or form. In Fig. II it is shown as partly withdrawn, and'projecting from the front opening of the ice-box in the shape ofa platform. The ice is placed upon it, as'represented, and then the drawer, with its load of ice, is returned to the ice-box.

In Fig. IIIl the drawer is represented as entirely removed from the ice-box, when it may be used as a receptacle for ice, in transporting it ii'om the ice-house, street, or other piace from whence the refrigerator may have to be supplied, directly into the ice-box of the refrigerator, ,obviating in a great measure the necessity of handling the ice with ice-tongs or hands, as is now required for such transportation.A

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The combination and arrangement of the hoppered bottom B B, removable platform drawer E,.and the gutters or troughs O and D, for the purposes and substantially as herein described.

ADAM HEINZ.

Witnesses:

J AMES HICKEY, B. H. MUEHLE. 

